Case Study

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	Exterior view of plant		Filling the processing chamber
	Interior view of plant		View of processing equipment

Dumfries Energy from Waste (EfW) Plant

Ascot have designed, built and privately funded this ground breaking project to convert waste into renewable energy.

Using proven Planet Advantage process technology the plant will initially provide 4 Megawatts of electricity into the grid by processing 40,000 tonnes of waste each year.

The plant will be commissioned in Spring 2008 and become operational later that year.

The facility could eventually deal with 60,000 tonnes and produce 6 Megawatts by adding to the batched chamber system within the existing building.

The advanced thermal gasification process will safely handle untreated municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial and commercial wastes leaving a fine ash residue of around 5 to 7% of the original weight.

Secondary markets for the ash exist in aggregates, building blocks and other applications.

The plant is contained within a traditional, low profile industrial building with a boiler flue stack height around 14 metres high.

The images shown were taken during the early commissioning stages of the Planet Advantage facility in Iceland and are indicative of the Dumfries installation. For more detail of the Dumfries project please go to the Scotgen page where regular Newsletters are posted on the project's progress.